Word: hopelessness
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...period is a long one, and to the layman the effort to fix the order of fifty royal tombs situated in apparent confusion on two separate hills may appear almost hopeless, although the procedure is really quite simple," says Dr. Reisner. Then he goes on to explain how the tombs, were separated into small groups, the members of each of which were united by contacts, by position, or by similarities of pyramid, chapel, foundation deposits, stairway, burial chambers, and accompanying objects; and how gradually, by the study of every detail, the exact order became clear...
...Among them are Orrin, the Gideonite salesman, bristling with esprit de corps; Tweet, his wife, "a fair thick being"; Mama Crumb, passive housewife ; Pearl, "a lovely, listless sister, a too mellow fruit"; Richmiel, sleek and perfumed, "whose body had seemed nine-tenths of her being" Grandfather Crumb, old, defeated, hopeless, ignored by the other Crumbs, but rising above them. Leda's defenses were being beaten down by the sheer gross weight of the Crumbs when Barnaby came. He was the divorced husband of Richmiel, and he came to take from her silken clutch their boy Oliver. It was inevitable...
...fight was chiefly interesting as a line on the visitor's chances with Dempsey. At present they are hopeless. Yet he has courage and power. Training has been known to do the rest...
...Grenfell's mission is not an effort to bolster up an inferior race in a fight against hopeless conditions of living, in an impossible land. It is an attempt to educate a people to take care of themselves, and to make the most of the world in which they live. In laying the foundation for a greater Labrador--a province which will represent more than a mere triangle on the upper-right-hand part of the map, it is "missionary work" in its highest and most practical sense...
...leaves for his throne, "with regret at departing from such a a fairyland." Where has he been? Whom has he met? So far as we know he has dined on the work of the best French chefs: and visited all the French tailors. Perhaps America is not so hopeless after...